The Fog building blocks
Fog computing in the industrial environment - Kontron has set itself this goal. The first building blocks of this IT-based product orientation were on display at the trade fair.
read more...read more...What the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update brings
Microsoft has been distributing the 'Windows 10 Fall Creators Update' since today. Microsoft is focusing primarily on the new 3D features.
read more..."The" TSN Congress
The TSN/A Conference will take place next Wednesday and Thursday in Stuttgart. Together with the AVNU Alliance, Computer&AUTOMATION is organizing this international conference on the real-time extensions of the Ethernet standard.
read more...Modular safety in the SmartFactory
Among other things, Industry 4.0 provides for the flexible conversion of modular production systems in the sense of 'plug & play'. Future safety concepts must also take this into account. Ethernet-based communication plays a key role here.
read more..."The" TSN Congress
Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is a real-time extension of standard Ethernet. The effects on all sectors - from industry and automotive to the consumer world - will be the focus of the TSN/A Conference on September 20-21, 2017 in Stuttgart.
read more...Windows 10 overtakes XP
Two years after its launch, Windows 10 has overtaken Windows XP to become the second most widely used operating system.
read more...Focus on model-based engineering
On June 27, 2017, the Mathworks community met in Munich for Matlab Expo 2017, where numerous applications related to model-based engineering were presented in addition to the latest innovations in Matlab and Simulink.
read more...Real-time Ethernet is a reality
Around 200 participants attended the 2nd Deterministic Ethernet Forum in Vienna at the beginning of May. The focus was on standardization topics and examples of successfully implemented applications in industry and the automotive sector relating to the real-time extension of standard Ethernet (TSN).
read more...The new OPC UA standard stack
At Hannover Messe 2017, the OPC Foundation announced a new open source implementation of OPC UA technology developed by Microsoft. It is intended to enable the rapid adaptation of OPC UA in cross-market and cross-platform products.
read more...Openness - a life task!
Heinrich Munz, Lead Architect Industry 4.0 at Kuka, was named Manager of the Year 2017 in the Industry 4.0 category by Markt &Technik in May. He has been campaigning for 'mainstream use' in automation and a corresponding 'openness' for over 30 years.
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